I think Erin hit all the best ones...certainly I love them all! (And it's a wonderful book, isn't it?) But I just had to add a couple more:
"Harry opened it with trembling fingers. Inside was a large, sticky chocolate cake with Happy Birthday, Harry written on it in green icing." Rowling, p. 48
"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff." Harry, p. 49 (right after Hagrid roars out "Do you mean to tell me...that this boy...knows nothin' abou' -- about ANYTHING?")
"Harry stretched out his hand at last to take the yellowish envelope, addressed in emerald green, to Mr. H. Potter, The Floor, Hut-on-the-Rock, The Sea." Rowling, p. 51
"Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow." Ron, p. 105
"...I've learned all our course books by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough." Hermione, pp. 105-106
"Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it..." Ron, p. 106
There are lots of other quotes I love, but I just had to pick a few more from those early scenes -- the hut and the Hogwarts Express.
I also love all the small dialogue echoes you get in Deathly Hallows, echoes from Philosopher's Stone. I'm sure there are lots more than I caught the first couple times through. Two that come to mind right now are the one where Ron is wishing for Crookshanks to open the Whomping Willow (in DH) and Hermione shrieks "Crookshanks! Are you a wizard or not?" Or something to that affect, which is almost an exact echo of what Ron yells at Hermione six years before when they were caught in the Devil's Snare plant after they got past Fluffy and in through the trap door. Remember Hermione is looking for wood to light a fire to try to kill the plant, and Ron bellows "HAVE YOU GONE MAD?...ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT?" When you think about this, in addition to the "always the tone of surprise" remarks they exchange within DH, one gets the feeling that Ron and Hermione have always marked what the other says with great importance -- they never really forget a word of what they've said to each other! And they enjoy a kind of playful, biting banter back and forth. Bodes well for their marriage, I'd say!
The other dialogue echo is laden with all sorts of interesting overtones. When Harry is looking at Snape's memories in DH, and he sees his father James as an eleven year old on the Hogwarts Express, he hears James say "Slytherin...I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" to Sirius. It's almost an EXACT echo (at least in tone) of what Draco Malfoy says to Harry the first time they meet at Madame Malkin's robe shop in Diagon Alley in PS. Only Malfoy says (and we can imagine he says it somewhat sneeringly) "...imagine being in Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" p. 77
It's interesting, by the way, that Draco picks on Hufflepuff here and not Gryffindor. Aside from that, it's also interesting that JKR seems to want to make us make the uncomfortable connection between James (his arrogance, his self-confidence) and Draco. My guess is she does this for at least two reasons. One is to show us that certain traits are not only the failings of Slytherins...they can be shared across houses. Even by beloved Gryffindors. Secondly, I think it is really crucially important that Harry feels empathy...not just sympathy, but empathy...with Snape in those early memories. It's empathy and pity that enables Harry to think about himself in the same breath with Snape and Voldemort, "all the abandoned boys," as he walks toward the forest. James is actually referred to as looking well-cared for and adored (I think that's the phrase) in contrast to the neglected looking Snape. And let's face it, Harry can relate far more to Snape than to his own Dad.
Makes you wonder if Harry didn't have some serious abandonment issues to deal with at a later time...although perhaps everything he goes through in his seven Hogwarts years must have been pretty healing and cathartic. I'm relieved and glad to see from the DH epilogue hat he named his first son James. (Wonder if the middle name was Sirius? That's my guess...)
Any other echoes in the dialogue or narrative (or for that matter, images) that connect DH and PS? I'm sure there are lots more....
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I didn't pick up on the Hermione parallel but definitely did get the Hufflepuff / Slytherin parallel. James really was a bit of a pain in those early days, wasn't he?
The first few chapters in PS are just so fantastic. Really funny, and she does such a great job of establishing the characters and the contrast between Harry's two worlds...
There's Fred and George pulling the switcheroo in both. I feel like they probably did it in between as well, but I'm not sure... But it's sort of interesting, because Harry's first introduction to them has them pretending to be each other, and when it happens in DH it's the last time it can happen.
Another would be the parallel between the mirror of Erised and the scene in the forest, particularly the way Harry and Lily gaze hungrily at one another...
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